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11 thoughts on “On Decision Making”

I believe the question “What wold someone who loves themselves do?” is making all the decisions this year. I am off the “hook” and give free reign to her. It is quite liberating to not have to decide. Although, my children overall pretty much everything….so from that angle most of my choices have been made there too. 2am wake ups, 3 am wake ups, 5 am wake ups….you get the point. lol Fortunately we have less of those now. I am SO grateful to have more sleep. That puts a smile on me automatically.

Nice post. There is one point that you write on the coin toss that I had never thought about and it really stuck “… it’s in that brief moment which the coin is in the air that you’ll know for what your heart truly desires.” – I like that! I always remember that coins have two sides, one you win from and one you learn from. Thanks for sharing!

I liked your post. It’s so true. Most of the tone we just don’t have enough information. So every decision is “the best”. Important in my opinion is just that you feel responsible for your decision and don’t blame anyone else, if things don’t work as planned.

Of course, there is thought on decisions (From the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T.S. Eliot):

There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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How many times do you make a decision, the revisit and change your mind, over and over and over. Yes, at times, perhaps we should just leave it to fate and flip the coin. But then, isn’t that a decision in and of itself?

Good post on decision-making! Gladwell’s book “Blink” is one of my faves — when I first read it I had an immediate “YESSSS!” He confirmed what I had felt for many years — that some of my best decisions (life, work, etc.) were those intuitive ones that required no slogging through the swamps of rational thought.